Class Note 1952

To win a trifecta you have to pick three winners in exact order in a given race. The weekend of October 11-12 was a trifecta for our class—and for Dartmouth. First, we had a great class dinner; second, Dartmouth beat Yale in football; and, third, the weather was a perfect fall foliage experience for Homecoming, a.k.a. Dartmouth Night. Most important, we had 34 classmates and partners and 10 students related to the class for the Saturday dinner at AVA Gallery. Attendees included Tom Garrity and Sally and Jim Toffey from Florida and Judy and Al Acker from Connecticut. Mariel and Al Sherburne, Julie and George Hibben, Dodie and Jack Boyle and Cecily and Steve Parkhurst all drove up from Massachusetts. Vic Trautwein and Ginny joined us from Rhode Island. Then, of course had had the locals—Judy and Bill Breed, Frank Logan, Ruth and Alden Guild, Hank Waters and Ann Merrick, class president Al Fiertz and Mary Peck, Judy and John North, Kay and John McCrillis, Kay and Wey Lundquist, Alison and Charlie Curtis, plus Maggie Montgomery and your house flack. Equally important, student attendees, each of whom spoke to the group, included grandchildren Brittany Toffey ’16, Calin Ackerman ’17 (Peter Vail), Margaret Fiertz ’15, Emily Rutherford ’16 (Jack Wall), Henry Russell ’15 (George Hibben) and Jessica Zischke ’16 (Pete Zischke). Samantha Anderson ’14, grandniece of Hank Waters, also attended. We also were pleased to have guests Erin Abraham ’14 (Hibben), Mimi Fiertz, Ying Lin ’16 and Jessica’s sister, Julie Zischke, with us for the evening. We should do this more often. In town for the weekend, but not at our dinner, were classmates John McDonald as well as Barbara and Pete McSpadden and Helene and Larry Newman (whose granddaughter is Emily Kochman ’15). In other news, Bob Millhouse (California) and Ben Stein (New Jersey), both medical doctors, visited Hanover this fall for a reunion at the Geisel School of Medicine. From your class officers: We wish you the best of good health and happiness for 2014! Please write.
—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com